Astronomers have unleashed a powerful new AI tool called RAVEN to comb through data from NASA’s TESS mission—and it’s paying ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have, for the first time, directly analysed the surface of a planet beyond our solar system. Observations of LHS 3844 b reveal a hot, airless world ...

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a “super-Jupiter” has substantial differences from our solar system’s ...

NASA’s TESS satellite has identified a treasure trove of potential exoplanets, but those initial detections require detailed follow-ups to confirm. Now a network of citizen scientists has confirmed ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When scientists find exoplanets around distant stars, a primary consideration is ...

The weather on the gas giant Ditsö̀ is literally alien. Clouds of solid quartz appear and disappear thanks to silicon and oxygen atoms continually evaporating from and then condensing in its ...

New simulations suggest binary star systems may be ideal for planet formation, and may produce more gas giants than ...

Spread the loveIn a groundbreaking achievement that is sending shockwaves through the scientific community and igniting the ...

Astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a ...

Astronomers don’t have to work hard to find binary stars in the Milky Way. They’re common, even abundant. For a long time, ...